Friday, 10 May 2013 21:35
Butamax and Gevo Grapple With Biofuels Patent Case Claims
Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC said a federal judge dismissed a patent-infringement case filed against it by rival Gevo Inc., while Gevo said today the dismissal is temporary and other cases continue. Butamax, a joint venture of DuPont Co. and BP…
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Friday, 10 May 2013 10:30
MIT Researchers Find Biofuels Linked to Warmer Climate
Released in the Geophysical Research Letters, a recent study has found that the changes caused by the usage of biofuels to shift towards cleaner energy have also led to some unintended results. It was learnt that it can make some…
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Friday, 10 May 2013 09:55
Peat Fuel Demand in Special Markets
Peat Resources Limited (the "Company") +14.29% announces that it has engaged IBK Capital Corp. to complete a best efforts private placement of up to $100,000. The placement consists of 2,500,000 units at $0.04 per unit. Each unit consists of one…
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Monday, 29 April 2013 19:16
E. coli enters the energy game, could pump out petroleum
Bacteria are big news in the biofuel business—genetically engineered microorganisms can turn various combinations of biomass, sunlight, and even carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. The potential for replacing fossil fuels with these renewable energy sources is significant, but the efficient…
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Friday, 26 April 2013 20:22
New ‘green’ method to help upgrade biomass waste into valuable chemicals
UW-Madison chemists have identified an approach to use oxygen gas to convert lignin, a byproduct of biofuel production, into a form that could allow it to replace fossil fuels as a source of chemical feedstocks. Lignin is a complex organic…
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Thursday, 25 April 2013 17:12
US Energy Department allots $18m towards bio-fuel production program
The US Energy Department has allotted funds of around $18m for four innovative pilot-scale biorefineries in the states of California, Iowa and Washington. These bio-refineries will test renewable bio-fuels as an alternative for fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, besides…
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Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:44
Chinese airline to start biofuel-powered commerical flights
Move comes after China Eastern Airlines conducts successful trial of Sinopac-produced fuel made from palm oil and recycled cooking oil China Eastern Airlines has said it plans to introduce biofuel-powered commercial flights, after yesterday completing its first successful trial of…
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Thursday, 18 April 2013 16:43
Town Council passes biomass moratorium
It was clear a half-hour before Town Council took its vote on a petitioned moratorium on large-scale biomass wood-burning facilities that it was going to pass. Early in the evening, the 13 councilors heard from a half-dozen residents who said…
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Thursday, 18 April 2013 16:42
National Trust to pilot biomass boiler at Ickworth House as part of plans to save £4m a year
The National Trust has announced it is to install a 300kW biomass boiler at Ickworth House which will supply all of its heating needs. The project is part of five pilot schemes costing a total of £3.5 million, that the…
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Thursday, 18 April 2013 10:00
The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels recognizes FSC certified forests
The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) has announced that from now on it will recognize FSC standards for responsible forest management. After comparing the Principles and Criteria from the FSC and RSB standards respectively, RSB concluded that the two are…
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Wednesday, 17 April 2013 17:10
Parliament report flags major changes to EU biofuels proposal
A European Parliament report into the EU’s proposals for addressing the problem of indirect land use change (ILUC) in its biofuels policy will propose today (17 April) the application of unique ‘factors’ to account for differences in biofuels performance. These…
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Wednesday, 17 April 2013 17:02
Sieving silica sieves from biomass ash
Burning biomass for heat and power could produce as much as 2000 TWh by 2020, which would produce 4–15.6 million tonnes of waste ash, per year, in Europe alone. To address the problem of what to do with all this…
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